EDUCATION

Educational Needs Of Unaccompanied Somali Children in the UK: Addressing Past Failings and Meeting Future Challenges

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSii

DECLARATIONiii

INTRODUCTION1

Research Review2

RESEARCH ARTICLE 15

Researchers Identity5

Research Objectives5

Methodology and Research Instruments8

Research findings10

RESEARCH ARTICLE 212

Researcher's Identity12

Research Objectives12

Methodology and Research Instruments13

Research findings14

RESEARCH ARTICLE 316

Researcher's Identity16

Research Objectives16

Methodology and Research Instruments17

Research findings18

REFERENCES19

Educational Needs Of Unaccompanied Somali Children in the UK: Addressing Past Failings and Meeting Future Challenges

INTRODUCTION

Education plays a great deal in keeping children committed towards their goals and in helping them to produce the best results. (Craddock, 2008) In order to keep a child motivated, the education system must provide children with educational opportunities. This would enable the children to develop skills which are required to perform well in the future. This would enable the England education system to improve the failures that have taken place in the past and to meet the future challenges (OFSTED, 2011). It is essential for the UK education system to address to the educational needs of unaccompanied Somali Children in the U.K. Therefore, it can be said that the educational institutions play a very vital role in molding the way in which the students perform. (Wal 2009, pp.45)

With regards to the unaccompanied Somali children in the England, it can be said that their educational needs have to be met by the government because these children are not able to pay for their education themselves. Moreover, the English government is liable to educate these children under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002. (Burnett & Peel, 2009) This is because these children are considered as children under care who are alone and do not have any support from their parents or families because in most instances, the parents are either left behind in the home country, or have been killed in civil war. Furthermore, early childhood education is very vital for the children, which refers to formal teaching that is provided to the young children. However, this teaching is not provided to them by their family but they are educated in an outside setting. In England, early childhood has been defined as an age before eight years. (Candappa, 2008) Since birth till adolescence and until the time an individual grows up, changes take ...